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Typical Pay for Real Estate Agents

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Real Estate Agents in the United States are typically paid $25.40 an hour, or $52,830 a year. Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure is for May 2025, the latest published.

This is what real estate agents are paid, not what a customer is charged. A bill for their work also covers materials, travel, insurance and the business's other costs.

Median hourly pay

$25.40

an hour, May 2025

Median annual pay

$52,830

a year, working full time all year

Against all occupations

+3.6%

AboveAll jobs $24.51

What most real estate agents are paid

The middle half of real estate agents earn between these two figures. A quarter earn less than the lower one and a quarter earn more than the higher one.

Lower quarter ends at

$19.25an hour

Median

$25.40an hour

Upper quarter starts at

$39.43an hour

About 193,370 people work in this occupation nationwide.

Where real estate agents sit among other jobs

Each tick is the median hourly pay of one of the 39 occupations tracked on this site. Real Estate Agents are the 25th highest paid of them.

Across 39 occupations the median hourly pay ranged from $15.81 to $82.19. The typical band runs from $21.86 to $47.03, with a median of $29.12. Real Estate Agents are at $25.40.

What this figure is

It comes from a survey of employers by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which classes this work as “Real Estate Sales Agents” (code 41-9022). It counts wages and salaries paid to employees. People who work for themselves are not included, and neither are tips reported separately, overtime premiums or benefits.

The figure is national. Pay varies a great deal from one area and one employer to another, so an offer or a wage where you live can sit well above or below it.

Common questions

How much do real estate agents make an hour?

Real estate agents in the United States are paid a median of $25.40 an hour as of May 2025, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Half earn more and half earn less.

What is the average salary for real estate agents?

The median annual pay for real estate agents is $52,830 (May 2025). That is the median rather than the average: the pay of the person in the middle, working full time all year.

What do the highest-paid real estate agents make?

The best-paid quarter of real estate agents earn more than $39.43 an hour. The lowest-paid quarter earn less than $19.25.

How does pay for real estate agents compare with other jobs?

Median hourly pay for real estate agents is +3.6% against the median for all occupations, which is $24.51 an hour.

How many real estate agents are there in the United States?

About 193,370 people were employed as real estate agents as of May 2025. The count covers employees and leaves out people who work for themselves.

Source

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics

National estimates for May 2025. Retrieved on October 6, 2026.

About the wage survey

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, retrieved through the BLS Public Data API. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.

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Median hourly pay. The percentage compares each with all occupations.